Making Enemies More Human

Going on with this, I also want to know if it's a good idea to give a small bit of character to everyone they meet, even if it just seems to be one encounter. Small stuff like complaining about some other jobs before dealing with PCs, or having some simple quirks and interests. How far is too far for this stuff

>>52817535
Cowardice always works well, having corner enemies throw down their weapons and beg to spared, pleading that they have a wife and kids and such.

>>52817535
Make them surrender and plead for their lives, after you've made it clear that they're normal people too.

>>52817535
What kind of setting is it.
Like WW2? Because i think it would be harder to make them sympathize with nazis.
I know most german soldiers were just normal people, but video games and such have made people pretty desensitized to killing hordes of them.

>>52818106
No it would be easier with WW2 Germany, especially before the Allies started walking through the country. All you need is an SS threatening the poor conscripts into continuing the fight.
When they started losing the war though and were really defending the fatherland, I doubt they'd give up easily.

One element I also wanted to place in was the belief that surrendering will mean terrible things for the guy surrendering due to earlier actions of an over eager general. What could come of this?

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>>52818106
>Because i think it would be harder to make them sympathize with nazis.
Wehrmacht =/= SS.
SS were the replacement "armed wing" of the NSDAP after the SA had been eliminated and eventually evolved into an elite unite fanatically devoted to the Nazi cause, including examples of what was deemed the pinnacle of the Aryan race (if I'm not mistaken simply wearing glasses would exclude you from being able to join the SS, because the ideal Aryan doesn't have faulty eyesight).

The Wehrmacht was simply the German army and a continuation of the Prussian army. They were volunteers and conscripts with varied loyalty to the Nazi cause. Some were highly in favor of it, some opposed it, the grand majority just ran with it. Rommel, for example, was more or less forced into suicide for opposing Hitler on various affairs.

That's easy mode. This is hard mode: The SS are human beings too. They aren't some cruel machines or even all psychopaths, they are just human beings who follow a certain ideal. Even if you believe that ideal is inherrently disgusting, stop and think about what would drive a sane human being to adopt that ideal. Nazi's are not Nazism, much like Muslims aren't Islam.

>>52817535
It's nice you do those things DM, as long as you don't get mad if PCs keep killing them the same way.

Taking me, I would do it not because 'lolmurderhobo', but because if you take a sword you will die by my sword. It's a very simple philosophy really.

>>52818106
>le ebil nahtzees amirite
Spot the underage.

>>52818314
>it's the "pure Wehrmacht" meme again

FUCK OFF back to >>>/pol/ you fucking wehraboo

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>>52819089
1. I never called the Wehrmacht pure. Considering you have the attentionspan of a goldfish with ADD, allow me to cite what I did say rather than forcing you to reread my previous post.
>Some [in the Wehrmacht] were highly in favor of [Nazi ideology], some opposed it, the grand majority just ran with it.
>The grand majority just ran with it
Notice that I state the majority of the Wehrmacht implicitly supported the status quo, or at the very least coudln't be bothered to condemn it. In what insane alternate reality is that "pure"?

2. If I were le ebin /pol/ boogeyman, why would I want to disassociate the Wehrmacht from the SS? Souldn't a more fitting belief for a pollack be that Hitler was the Great Savior beloved by all Germans and that every single German soldier dreamed of nothing more than killing and being killed in his name?